We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. - William Gibson But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. - Michael Shermer

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. - Roland Barthes No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment. - Markus Zusak